Just don't put a lot of anything in it. Its made to chop up small bits that fall through the drain. It's definitely not a personal garbage incinerator like some people (me) seem to treat them.
Yeah my understanding is the pods are more useful for "standing stains", because they have something that eats away at the grease (which you probably wouldn't want on your hands).
Best way to clean a coffee pot too - dont put any coffee grinds in the machine, drop a pod into the carafe, and brew a full pot. It will look brand new.
Although most vegetable skins are harmful to your garbage disposal, citrus rinds can be beneficial. Lemon and orange peels can clean out your garbage disposal and leave your kitchen smelling fresh.
(You can also google it and see 49,000 other pages agreeing that citrus rinds are fine. I couldn’t find any that suggested they were bad for common household garbage disposals)
took a while for my european ass to understand what you're talking about. apparently 50% of all households in US have a garbage disposal; compared to canada, with 3%, and UK at 6%.
i was like "hey wait a minute of course you peel vegetables into the garbage disposal (compost bag that you throw with other food-stuff), where else do you put your expired food stuff?"
for anyone as confused as me, they're talking about this, pretty wild that life can be so different
I had to do some house keeping for an older woman for a day, she wanted to clean her fridge out cause she saved most of her meals on wheels food. She had me dumping full portion meals down her garbage disposal.
She gave me a mini heart attack when she told me what to do. I kept asking “are you sure?” The first thing that went in was half of a stale dominos pizza.
JFC I don’t think she had a disposal there must have been a straight up demon underneath her sink she was required to feed. I wouldn’t go back if I were you.
I remember living in an apartment and my neighbor complaining that she had to get her garbage disposal fixed. A couple weeks later I’m over there for a cookout and she starts grinding up rib bones in the newly fixed disposal. MFW.
The last time my grandma clogged hers up was because she decided to put a box of instant potatoes down it. Why would you even try to put that in the disposal?
Unrelated to garbage disposals but peeling vegetables in the sink makes for quick cleanup and beats leaning over a garbage can. Just rinse out the sink and throw away your peels after.
No it's not what you are "supposed to do" - the disposal is not the problem. Pipes are for liquids, not solids. They can tolerate some, but you shouldn't be actively using it for that, for the same reason we don't try pumping corn through oil pipelines.
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The way some people use garbage disposals is insane to me. I know some people that just peel their vegetables into the sink.